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NASA Awards Contract for Spacecraft Solar Cells to Sunovia and EPIR

Sunovia Energy Technologies, Inc. and EPIR Technologies, Inc. are pleased to announce the execution of an agreement with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the development of advanced high-efficiency, ultra-lightweight solar cells with thicknesses reduced by a factor of more than ten as compared to those currently in use.

13 Feb 2008

Solar Energy Conversion Efficiency Record Smashed by Sandia and Stirling Energy Systems

Sandia National Laboratories and Stirling Energy Systems (SES) have set a new solar-to-grid system conversion efficiency record by achieving a 31.25 percent net efficiency rate.

From Sandia National Laboratories 13 Feb 2008

Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Delivered by NanoDynamics to US Army as Part of Solution to Mid Range Power Requirements

NanoDynamics, Inc. announced today its delivery of a 50-watt solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC), powered by desulfurized synthetic JP-8 fuel, to the Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center&rsquo...

12 Feb 2008

Solar Cell Efficiency Breakthrough Comes from Telecommunications Semiconductor Research

Semiconductor insights gained by engineering physics researchers at McMaster University for the telecommunications industry have led to a research breakthrough in the future development of high-efficiency solar cells. ...

12 Feb 2008

Carbon Nanotubes Synthesized Using Commercially Available Polymer Resins

Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory have sucessfully produced high yields of carbon nanotubes using commercially available polymer resins as precursors using a patented technique.

8 Feb 2008

Nanosieves to Save Energy in Distillation Process for BioFuel Production

A new type of membrane, developed by scientists of the University of Twente in The Netherlands, can stand high temperatures for a long period of time. This ‘molecular sieve’ is capable of removing water out o...

8 Feb 2008

Funding Boost for Alternative Energy Research at UCL and the London Centre for Nanotechnology

Research funding awarded for the creation of cheap, efficient storage for hydrogen, and the development of large-surface organic solar cells.

7 Feb 2008

Research Grant for Improving Food Safety with Nanotechnology

QuantumSphere, Inc., a leading manufacturer of nano metals and alloys for applications in renewable energy, portable power, defense, electronics and other markets demanding advanced materials, today announced that it has...

6 Feb 2008

First CMOS RF Switches with GaAs Performance Shipped by Infineon

Infineon Technologies announced it is shipping in volume the world’s first RF switches that are manufactured in a CMOS-based process on silicon wafers and offer the equivalent performance of RF switches manufacture...

6 Feb 2008

Thin Film Solar Becomes Big Trend in Taiwan

Taiwan has always been a major place for thin-film technology and the semiconductor industry. Big players in the Taiwanese industry are now using this experience to explore and start new thin-film silicon solar productio...

6 Feb 2008